House of Commons Journal Volume 1: 01 May 1610

Martis, 1 Maii

Impositions.

SIR Edw. Hobby reporteth the Search at the Tower: -

Delivereth in 46 E. III. Stat. - avoweth it for true : - Examined by the Record.

Days for several Committees.

BB. of Religion : - Saturday, Parliament-house.

BB. of Game - Saturday, Court of Wards.

Transportation Ordnance: - Tuesday, Star-chamber.

Woods: - To-morrow Morning, from Seven to Nine, - Parliament-house.

Pyrates : - This Afternoon, Court of Wards.

Purveyance: - Thursday, Exchequer Court.

Highways : - Saturday, this House.

Tuesday, Parliament-house

Wines :

Assignments:

Employments:

Suppress. Idleness:

Leases to his Majesty to try Titles: -

Thursday, Sennight, Parliament-house.

Private Contracts:

Lands entailed:

Women , Tenants in Tail:

Milch Kine:

Friday.

Abuses of Commoners :

Trade of Butter and Cheese:

Spinsters and Weavers :

Clothing : -

Saturday Sennight, Parliament-house.

Clothes without ready Money:

Gold-end-men, &c.

Warrants of Attorney:

Ambassadors Children:

Faulcons and Lannerets: -

Monday Sennight, Parliament-house.

Sir Rob. Drury :

Leaden-hall:

Marshalsea: -

Moor-burning - To-morrow Morning, Committee Chamber.

Mr. Brook - Restitution.

Suits against Magistrates : - This Day.

Sir Stephen Proctor: - To-morrow Morning.

Impositions.

Sir Edwyn Sandys: - That Monday next, for the Impositions, in the House. -

That Gentlemen selected may search Precedents.

Sir Jo. Sammes - Stone to appear; and Mr. Tey, on Monday, that understands better.

Mr. Noy, Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower, Mr. Tate, Sir Roger Owen, Sir Rob. Cotton, Mr. Whytlock, Mr. Finch, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Dyett, - search Records touching Impositions.

Tenures and Wardships.

Mr. Martin: - That in the great Matter, some Answer might be returned to the Lords.

Mr. Fuller -

Mr. Solicitor: - Attributum consilii mobilis; - not im-mobilis, as thus advised. -

A decent, modest, respective Message. -

Finis coronat opus. - Two Crowns of Actions. - Prevailing and respective Carriage.

Mr. Speaker : - That the Message may be penned.

Mr. Wentworth: - That first it might be debated in the House.

Sir Rob. Johnson: - That seeing 300,000l. for all our Offer for Part, not to sit down thus.

Sir Maurice Berkley -

Mr. Duncombe: - A Committee, and then Sub-committee to pen it.

Sir Roger Owen: - That Silence best; or else to send a Message, that we can go no higher; and leave it to their Lordships.

Sir Geo. Moore: - To deliver the Reasons why we cannot go higher, in our Message. - Double the Worth.

Sir Tho. Beamount: - That we must first understand what is demanded, because it is darkly propounded.

Sir Wm. Strowd: - That our Offer may be expounded to be for Wards only.

Mr. Attorney: That a Committee.

Sir Wm. Cope: - That now the Committee may sit because of Number.

Sir Herbert Crofts: - That it might be debated and determined here.

Mr. Chancellor : - To make a Question, whether in a Committee, or in the House.

Sir Edwyn Sandys: - No dull Silence in any thing that is between the King and the House.

The Answer weighty, not difficult. -

Jealousy, that we meant to lay the Burden upon any that hath no Land. -

To bargain single, and not to mingle. -

To debate it in the House; and if any Contradiction, then to a Committee. -

For the Manner of Penning, to a Sub-committee.

Mr. Speaker, - for a Committee: - For Answer.

Resolved: To dispute it again To-morrow.

Mr. Dyett: - That the Manner for a Committee; the Matter for a House.

Mr. Speaker: - All that spake, to set down their Propositions in Writing. - Resolved.